About
I am a doctoral candidate in Spanish and a graduate certificate student in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies. Broadly, my research is in Latin American cultural studies. My work lies at the intersection of political economy, feminist theory, gender and sexuality studies, Indigenous studies, and political theory. My current research project examines the sexual politics of settler colonialism in the Southern Cone, focusing on 19th-century literary and visual cultures.
My dissertation, Scenes of Captivity. Pleasure and Domination in the Settler Colonial Archive, reflects on an extensive archival corpus of discourses and images that I call “scenes of captivity,” which intertwine captive white women, Indigenous raids, and the state’s expanding frontiers. Focusing on three key moments in the colonial and national formation of settler colonial states in the Southern Cone, I show how the repetition of these scenes of captivity functions both as a spectacle and as a political myth.
Before coming to the University of Michigan, I studied Anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires, where I completed my BA thesis in the field of political and historical anthropology, with a focus on the 19th century Buenos Aires borderlands and contemporary Mapuche territorial struggles. I have published in the journals Memoria Americana, Diálogo Andino, and TEFROS. My public writing has also been featured in NACLA Report on the Americas. You can find my publications in my Academia.edu page linked above.